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Countries With The Fastest Growing Populations
The world’s human population continues to grow at an unsustainable rate, with the United Nations (UN) predicting 10.3 billion people by the mid 2080s. However, population growth rates remain uneven across the globe, with some countries seeing declines, while others…
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Global Deforestation
Deforestation, or forest clearance, is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then repurposed to non-forest use. Up to 15 billion trees are now being cut down every year across the world, mostly to enable the production of more food…
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Countries With The Fastest Growing Populations
The world’s human population continues to grow at an unsustainable rate, with the United Nations (UN) predicting 10.3 billion people by the mid 2080s. However, population growth rates remain uneven across the globe, with some countries seeing declines, while others…
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Air Quality
With more people comes more waste, contamination, pollution, and other issues detrimental to human heath and the health of the planet’s ecosystems. Of all the threats to human health, poor air quality is probably the most directly affecting. Human population growth and declining…
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Animal Extinction
For as long as species have been evolving, they have been going extinct. It is estimated that 99.9% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct. The rate of extinction is far from constant, but as new species evolve to fit ever changing ecological conditions…
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Most Densely Populated Cities On Earth
Population density is a key geographical term and a measurement of population per unit area. For example, it is commonly expressed as the number of persons per square mile or persons per square kilometer. The world’s population density, overall, is about…
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Deforestation, or forest clearance, is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then repurposed to non-forest use. Up to 15 billion trees are now being cut down every year across the world, mostly to enable the production of more food…
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Plastic Pollution
Plastic production has increased dramatically over the last 70 years as the Earth’s human population has grown. In 1950, with a global population of 2.5 billion, the world produced just 2 million tonnes of plastic. It now produces over 450 million tonnes per year…
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